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The commercial capture of car-sharing in France How policies to green mobility promote platform capitalism
[La captation marchande du covoiturage en France. Comment les politiques d’écologisation de la mobilité favorisent le capitalisme de plateforme]

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  • Sébastien Shulz

    (COSTECH - Connaissance Organisation et Systèmes TECHniques - UTC - Université de Technologie de Compiègne, IFRIS - Institut francilien recherche, innovation et société - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - OST - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche - ESIEE Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, LISIS - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - Université Gustave Eiffel)

Abstract

After a mixed start, the market for short-distance car-sharing platforms is now booming, with considerable public support in the name of the ecological transition of the mobility sector. Yet the solution of a market of digital platforms to meet the environmental challenges of the private car is not self-evident. To understand how this alignment came about, I carried out a survey through semi-structured interviews (N=22), the collection of grey literature and press articles (N=698), and the observation of the socio-technical characteristics of the main platforms (N=5). I analyzed this material by placing myself at the crossroads between the sociology of the political construction of markets and the sociology of market arrangements. The article shows why and how the state favors the techno-market capitalist platform model over the other two models (cooperative and social utility), helping to build an economy of capture. It concludes with a discussion of the tension between the state's objectives of greening the mobility sector, and its support for capitalist platforms whose model is likely to generate "rebound effects".

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  • Sébastien Shulz, 2024. "The commercial capture of car-sharing in France How policies to green mobility promote platform capitalism [La captation marchande du covoiturage en France. Comment les politiques d’écologisation d," Post-Print hal-04715550, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04715550
    DOI: 10.3917/res.244.0189
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